Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and studied in Birmingham and London. Amanda Craig, The Times Kevin Brooks has won the Branford Boase Award and been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Manchester Book Award and for the Carnegie Medal (for Martyn Pig, Road of the Dead and Black Rabbit Summer). Praise for The Bunker Diary: pacey plots. What's he going to do to me? What am I going to do? If I'm right, the lift will come down in five minutes. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks's pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true - and how will you survive? I can't believe I fell for it.
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